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duous tree, with a compact rounded top, the branches spreading in all - 
directions, having a trunk a foot in diameter : it perhaps belongs to 
the Acerineæ. Its peculiarity consists in the varied states of the foliage 
in different individuals. In some the plants were in full foliage, and 
just beginning to blossom ; in some they were just bursting into leaf; 
while others were quite destitute of leaves, the foliage having fallen on 
the ground beneath, All these were within a short distance of each 
other, and I could see no cause for so striking a difference among 
them. My collection contains seven new Banksias, but the allied genus 
Dryandra is by no means so plentiful in the north. I reckon, however, 
three new Dryandras ; all small species, but of the Banksias two form 
trees, with a trunk from 12 to 18 inches in diameter. One of these 
arborescent species has globose heads of flowers of a metallic green 
colour, and its follicles clothed with white waxy warts; the other has 
leaves like a pine. 
“I could have procured many more plants in the north, but for the 
character of the natives, who were so troublesome that I could only 
make excursions armed with a double-barrelled gun, and in company 
with mounted police. Both myself and my son John, who is at the 
head of the police here, had several narrow escapes with our lives. At 
one time there were two hundred natives invited to the feast they in- 
tended to make on our bodies after they should have killed him and 
me; but providentially they did not succeed in their murderous de- 
signs upon either of us.” 
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Hooker, Josepn DaLron : FLora or NEW ZEALAND; being the 
second Portion of the ‘BOTANY OF THE ANTARCTIC VoyaGe.” 
Published under the Authority of the Lords Commissioners of the 
Admiralty. Part I., 4to. 20 Plates. London: Reeve and Co. - 
In bringing out the present valuable work, Dr. Hooker is only ful- 
filling a pledge given to Government and to the public on his return 
from the Antarctic Discovery Voyage, viz., that he would p anie the 
Flora of three respective regions visited during that circumnavigation, 
